pause for five days. but if we don t get what we want, we ll resume fighting. that is not a ceasefire, that s simply a cave in on our part and it s a sellout. and i think we should be careful because we have there s others in the works. on your list because it didn t happen yesterday, could potentially be afghanistan, a very similar thing. it s coming. or essentiallily we go around the world and we have serial sellouts of people who have been our partners. the president is caving in. the weakness ais shocking. the president has shown himself to be extraordinarily weak in his dealings with north korea and kim jong-un. the president has betrayed the kurds. the president this week has empowered isis. the president has empowered iran. the president has stabbed israel in the back. this really is the way he lived his life in
when russia intervened, they prioritized their fight against antigovernment rebels. they hit cia black sites in the country. these are not our allies. they do not have our best interests at heart. and when the president does make a concession, cedes our strategic interests to russia, you can be sure that they will not be seen to and that we will lose advantage as a result. now, you re exactly right. richard, these people that donald trump said would take care of isis empowered isis. syria bought oil from isis. turkey allowed isis to use basically they were the gateway into syria. isis fighters would go to turkey and freely let them flow across the border. and what is so concerning, and willie let they throw this out to you, what is so kerk concerns they were warned. donald trump was warned about the rise of isis, about a month ago the pentagon i girks
second point is, in countries where we have good relations with muslim societies, muslim governments who are working with us, this is going to make it much harder for them to be supportive of us. and in all likelihood, will inspire terrorists to attack facilities there and demonstrations and it also plays into propaganda for isis and al qaeda. it s the sort of thing that they embrace and celebrate. all right. would lifting that reverse are we already there now so that so-called damage, whatever, so-called, whatever effect it created has now been created. does lifting it at this point make any difference? here s what i would do. i would go back to the drawing board. one of the problems with this administration so far, and let me back up a again and say, everyone who signed that declaration has spent a good part of their life fighting terrorism. no one here is saying that we have a perfect counterterrorism
country, and to democrats. we re going to work on education issues. we re going to work on infrastructure issues to create jobs. jobs are extremely important. there are certain things that are very important to us to get done. for my constituents, not only in my own district but for america. but what s happened in the last week has really bothered us and we re not going to stand for certain things happening. we re going to hold the new administration accountable. but what we need to do is to say to the new president, if i could have a conversation with him, what i would say is number one, you are the president of the united states. words matter. and the last three weeks, your words have gone all over the world, my opinion, they ve hurt our country. you have empowered isis and by going by your immigration ban, which yat you have done is allowed isis to recruit people saying the united states is against muslims generally. what i would like to see the president do is learn more about na
certainly the power base of angela merkel, the german prime minister, who is now coming up to a tough re-election and we re seeing these attacks could weaken her base for support of immigration policies she put into place. isis is counting on that. and just today we saw a document, a tweet released by a german isis member who put up a picture of isis combatants in berlin that said, mission [ speaking foreign language ] right which is german for mission accomplished. if anything happens, isis will damage the german government, that is their goal. you re reading mission accomplished just as they re putting the christmas tree back up. they re down but they re not out. angela merkel remains in her position. as you said, she is up for a tough re-election. given that, you know, you just saw a tweet like that, mission accomplished, that empowered isis or, dare i say, isis enthusias enthusiasts. should we expect more attacks on soft target like this?